* * * * * "But this Antenor I know is such a wrest in their affairs." I might incline to read _trust_ for 'wrest.' "Their tribune and their _trust_" (Tit. Andron. i. 2). See also Ps. xl. 4, lxxi. 5. A _wrest_ was what we now term a tuning-key. "This small instrument, the tongue being left in tune by the _wrest_ of awe." King James's Edict, etc., quoted by Singer. * * * * * "Good morrow, _Ajax_.--Ay, and good next day too." * * * * * "For speculation turns not to itself Till it hath travell'd and is married there Where it may see itself." I see no reason for adopting, as some do, _mirror'd_ of Collier's and Singer's folios. There was, I believe, no such verb at that time. I prefer _arrived_, which could easily have become _married_ in a printer's mind. * * * * * "Where they are extended; who, like an arch, reverberate." Rowe read _which_ and 'reverberate_s_,' of which the first is needless, the second may be right. * * * * * "_By_ an act that very chance doth throw upon him." * * * * * "As done. Perseverance, dear my lord _it is_." * * * * * "Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path." This line would gain both in perspicuity and melody if we were to read 'but one.' * * * * * "And leave you hindmost." As this line is short, and as further on there is a line with two superfluous feet, it is evident that there has been a misarrangement. I have, therefore, in my Edition, rearranged this and the following lines. I have there read, "Fallen in _the_ first rank;" but it might be better, though less forcible, to read:-- "Fallen in first rank, lies there for pavement to." * * * * * "And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'erdusted _e'er is given_." * * * * * "Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves." I incline to read _emulations_. "Whilst emulation in the army crept."--ii. 2. "When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such factious emulations shall arise." 1 Hen. VI. iv. 1. Here one word appears, as elsewhere, to have become two in the printer's hands. (See Introd. p. 67.) But as the poet was probably familiar with Chapman's Iliads, the allusion may be to the various missions of Apollo, Minerva, Hermes, and Iris. * * * * * "Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles _laid_." ACT IV. SC. 1. "During all question of the gentle truce." If 'question' be genuine here it must mean intercourse, conversation, a sense of which I have met with no example. * * * * *